Nov. 4, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Liquid Computing, the leader in unified computing infrastructure for today’s dynamic data center, today announced that it is working with Intel® to launch its new Liquid Elements™ unified computing system on Intel® Server Systems with Intel® Xeon® processors. Liquid Computing will work with VAR channel partners and customers to begin delivering the solution to market at the end of this quarter. The combined solution will be demonstrated at the upcoming SC09 conference, November 14 – 20 in Portland, Oregon.

Until now, Liquid Computing has driven the unified computing market with its LiquidIQ™ product, a fully integrated hardware and software-based system that is proven to dramatically reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure through software control of servers, networking and storage from a common interface.

With the introduction of Liquid Elements, Liquid Computing becomes the first to deliver the power of unified computing across standards-based data center infrastructure from leading brands. Initially, Liquid Elements will support Intel® Server System SR1680MV rack servers and NetApp® storage devices. The result is a complete “data center in a box” that combines the cost-savings and management flexibility of unified computing from Liquid Computing with the breakthrough processing speed, memory and density of servers from Intel. The system is also designed to cost effectively scale from the smallest through the largest of implementations.

“We believe Liquid Computing’s solution will help accelerate the adoption of unified computing that applies an open, standards-based approach,” said David Brown, general manager of Channel Server Products at Intel. “By addressing the significant issue of escalating cost and complexity of infrastructure management, Liquid Elements on Intel-based servers provides a powerful solution for the server OEMs and channel to create dynamic and highly efficient data centers for their customers.”

“With Liquid Computing’s open approach to unified computing, enterprises can leverage their existing data center vendor relationships and investments,” said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, Yankee Group. “Since it’s based on common data center building blocks from industry leaders like Intel and NetApp, and supports both bare metal and virtualized environments, Liquid Elements customers gain the benefits of unified computing without incurring cost, risk and delays typically associated with migration to a new platform.”

“Liquid Elements will add strength to our data center solutions practice," said Joe Vaught, executive vice president and COO of PCPC Direct Ltd., a Houston-based solutions provider.